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-.TH EVENTFD 2 2010-08-30 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH EVENTFD 2 2014-07-08 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
eventfd \- create a file descriptor for event notification
.SH SYNOPSIS
The following values may be bitwise ORed in
.IR flags
-to change the behaviour of
+to change the behavior of
.BR eventfd ():
.TP
.BR EFD_CLOEXEC " (since Linux 2.6.27)"
.BR poll (2),
or
.BR epoll (7).)
-.SS Underlying Linux system calls
+.SS C library/kernel ABI differences
There are two underlying Linux system calls:
.BR eventfd ()
and the more recent
.BR epoll (7),
.BR sem_overview (7)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.68 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,